"Come in!"

He shouted through the entrance of his tent. He was writing to Congress at the moment, asking for more soldiers because he needed more. Thankfully, you were a new soldier. Washington didn't know what to expect. He never knew what to expect with new soldiers but he assumed you'd be what every soldier is. A young white man, ready to fight. That's what soldiers had to be. Young men. It was illegal for women to be soldiers and he didn't have any black soldiers.